yum problem

[Paul Howarth]

Al Bayrouni wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>> Al Bayrouni wrote:
>>
>>> Excuse all (because this is the 2 post)
>>>
>>> I have just adding freshrps to my yum.conf,
>>> and then I did yum update.
>>> After few minutes the system was updated and I it works without any 
>>> problem.
>>>
>>> But now when I do: yum update there is a lot of errors like this:
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 8, in ?
>>>     yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>>>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 68, in main
>>>     result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands()
>>>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 381, in doCommands
>>>     return self.updatePkgs()
>>>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 766, in updatePkgs
>>>     self.doRepoSetup()
>>>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 70, in doRepoSetup
>>>     repo.getRepoXML()
>>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 465, in
>>> getRepoXML
>>
>>
>>
>> You appear to have picked up python 2.4. This is only currently 
>> available in "rawhide" and is known to break lots of things. Which 
>> repos do you have enabled?
>>
>> Paul.
>>
> Paul,
> here are all my repos in yum.conf
> [testing]
> development
> base
> updates-released
> updates-testing

If updates-testing is enabled, you no longer have an FC3 system, you have 
rawhide, which is very unstable and prone to just the sort of bug you have 
discovered.

> fedora.us.stable
> fedora.us.testing
> fedora.us.unstable
> fedora.us.updates-testing
> THE PROBLEM BEGAN FROM HERE I THINK
> livna-stable
> livna-testing
> dag
> freshrpms
> at-stable

With all these testing repositories, you really shouldn't be surprised if 
things regularly fall over.

Paul.